“I think the game went just as we expected it to go. As I said before, (Oregon) can get up and down the court quicker than anyone we have played. Early in the game we didn’t do very well in transition defense, and when you look at our inability to hit threes and their ability hit that shot, one can see what made the difference in the game.”

“Aaron (Brooks) made a tough shot at the end. We had two guys (Marcus Williams and Ivan Radanovic) challenging him and he just made a great shot.”

“I thought we did a good job of coming back after they hit some really good shots that got us down. We just couldn’t close it.”

“Marcus had a great game on both ends of the court and Ivan had 13 boards, but he missed some shots that he wouldn’t normally miss.”

“When you lose one at home then you have to get extra win on the road, and we have our work cut out for us next week in Los Angeles; we are going to have to play at our very best.”

“(Oregon) really hurt us in the first half in the transition. We had two guys back on defense and that isn’t enough with this team. I really felt that I had to make some changes in the front line early because we weren’t making that transition well. When you have three point shooters like Oregon has, you are not going to stop them with two guys, the third and fourth guys need to get back and we just didn’t do that very well.”

“The quickness [of Oregon] definitely bothered [Chase Budinger] from beginning to end. I thought he did a much better job, however, in the second half on the transition. I thought he did a good job on (Tajuan) Porter. He kept him from using his right hand too often and he played very well in that regard.”

“[At the end] we made the right decision on the shot. Ivan made read the situation correctly because his man was not on him, but double teaming Marcus and he did what he should have done, which was to throw it to Chase up high on the side line. They knocked it out of bounds, so we ran our normal ?'catch-shoot’ play. Marcus didn’t get a good shot, but he got the best one he could get in that situation.”